Meaning of Tarot Cards

Card Meaning: Ace Of Cups

General

No wonder the main motif on this card bears a clear resemblance on the Holy
Grail. This card has a very spiritual and emotional context. It often suggests
a beginning of a new relationship. What is important is to
understand that this card is the seed and the essence of the Cups suit. It
suggests a beggining of a new emotion, peace, romantic relationship or
just friendship. It often stands for start of harmonious family life. As a
member of the Cups family it also has a say about creativity, imagination, faith and deeper
levels of consciousness. It is also important to see that this seed is not
always too visible to us. We may have a seed of the new relationship in our
heart before our mind can see that. Sometimes it just shows that the essence of
some life problem is in some kind of emotional, "watery" issue. Five
streams pouring out of the cup probably stand for five basic senses through wich
we experience the world. Once again we see the Hebrew letter Yod raining from
above, clearly a sign of the divine grace, a help from above; thus, following your
intuition is an important part of message of this card. The cup is suspended in the air above some vaste body of water, emphasizing
its connection with the water element, waterflowers symbolize the creative power
of imagination.

Reading

Positive: beginning of new relationship, intuition, abundance, joy,
contentment, faithfulness, compassion, creativity, friendship, your time is
coming soon, there is more work to be done but victory is yours. Seed of
success.

Negative: dissolution of relationship, lost or unrequired love, despair, loss of
faith, lack of empathy. Try to resolve issues from the past so everybody
involved can move forward.

The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the
cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove,
bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup;
the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may
lie behind the Lesser Arcana. Divinatory Meanings: House of the true
heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table,
felicity hereof. Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation,
instability, revolution.